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VMware Flings Update

10.26.2023 by William Lam // 25 Comments

This has been a difficult week for all VMware employees due to the pending acquisition of VMware by Broadcom. Many VMware employees are still waiting to hear back from Broadcom about their employment status either before and/or after the planned acquisition close date. I wanted to provide this context before sharing a quick update regarding the VMware Flings program.

On Tuesday October 24th, VMware Fling authors was made aware that the VMware Flings site (flings.vmware.com) would be taken down and website would simply be redirected to developer.vmware.com/samples starting on Thursday October 26th.

πŸš¨πŸ“’ PSA - Folks, if you need particular VMware Fling, please download it NOW. On Thur (10/26), the site will no longer exists & simply redirected to Sample Exchange, where you may find some but most will not be there including some of mines. Hoping this is temp. but not sure https://t.co/vdz9uWAFvy

— William Lam (@lamw.bsky.social | @*protected email*) (@lamw) October 24, 2023

The VMware Flings program was operated and run by VMware's Office of the CTO (OCTO) and while I do not have specifics on why it needed to go down, I tried my best to share out the news as broadly and as quickly as I could so that folks could at least grab what they needed. While the original notice mentioned the site would function up until 10/26 at 5pm PST, it looks VMware IT had already made the DNS changes and the redirect has already been propagated.

As of right now, I do not know the future of the VMware Flings program, but I did want to share a few updates since the site and its downloads are no longer available.

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Categories // Automation, ESXi, ESXi-Arm, Horizon View, Kubernetes, VMware Cloud, VMware Tanzu, VSAN, vSphere Tags // Fling

Quick Tip - Retrieving the vSAN Rekey Interval using PowerCLI

07.26.2023 by William Lam // Leave a Comment

Since the release of vSAN 6.5.1, the PowerCLI team has introduced a number of high level vSAN cmdlets (current list HERE) that can be used to automate a variety of tasks. While the existing vSAN cmdlets are quite extensive and continues to get updated with new functionality, it will never be able to cover the rich set of functionality that is provided by vSAN.

For functionality that is not available in the high level vSAN cmdlets, user can still perform the task using PowerCLI, but they will need to directly access the underlying API, in this case the vSAN Management API.

Note: This concept also applies to other high level PowerCLI cmdlets, if you are unable to locate the functionality, then most likely you will need to interrogate the API using PowerCLI.


In the case of retrieving the vSAN Data-in-transit encryption rekey interval, which is not available in the high level Get-VsanClusterConfiguration cmdlet, we can easily retrieve it with the following PowerCLI snippet:

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Categories // Automation, PowerCLI, VSAN Tags // PowerCLI, rekey, VSAN

Frequently asked scenarios about Subscription & Entitlement for vSphere+, vSAN+ and VCF+

06.23.2023 by William Lam // 5 Comments

This is a multi-part blog series on some of the frequently asked questions and scenarios for theΒ vSphere+, vSAN+ and VCF+ Cloud Services. What started out as a single blog post that attempted to summarize some of the learnings and notes that I have made while answering various questions from our field and customers for vSphere+, vSAN+ and VCF+ quickly turned into a 3K+ word blog post and counting! πŸ˜…

While I thought it would be easier from a search perspective to have everything in a single blog post, I decided to take the advice from the community and actually break it up into small blogs which would be part of a large multi-part blog series, in no particular order but I recommend reading it in the following logical order as shown below:

  • Frequently asked scenarios about vCenter Cloud Gateway (VCGW) for vSphere+, vSAN+ and VCF+
  • Frequently asked scenarios about vCenter Lifecycle Management for vSphere+, vSAN+ and VCF+
  • Frequently asked scenarios about vCenter Desired State Configuration for vSphere+, vSAN+ and VCF+
  • Frequently asked scenarios about VM Provisioning & Management for vSphere+, vSAN+ and VCF+
  • Frequently asked scenarios about Cloud Consumption Interface (CCI) for vSphere+, vSAN+ and VCF+
  • Frequently asked scenarios about Global Inventory for vSphere+, vSAN+ and VCF+
  • Frequently asked scenarios about Subscription & Entitlement for vSphere+, vSAN+ and VCF+ (THIS BLOG POST)

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Categories // VMware Cloud, VSAN, vSphere Tags // VMware Cloud, VSAN, vSphere

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